EXTREME SPORTS LEARN TO RIDE
EXTREME SPORTS LEARN TO RIDE
EXTREME SPORTS LEARN TO RIDE
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Shaun White<br />
Shaun Roger White is an american<br />
professional skateboarder<br />
and snowboarder.He is a<br />
two tme Olympic gold medalist.In<br />
the last eleven years he<br />
has won 28 gold medals, 6 silver<br />
medals and 3 bronce medals.<br />
Early Life<br />
White was born in San Diego, California.<br />
His ancestry includes Irish<br />
and Italian. He was born with a Tetralogy<br />
of Fallot, a congenital heart<br />
defect for which he endured two<br />
open-heart operatons before the<br />
age of one. He stands 5'8" (1.73 m)<br />
tall. White spent his formatve years<br />
riding Okemo Mountain and Bear<br />
Mountain, small ski resorts found in<br />
Ludlow, Vermont, and the San Ber-<br />
nardino Mountains of Southern California.<br />
14<br />
Snowboarding<br />
career<br />
White has partcipated in two<br />
Winter Olympics in his career. At<br />
both the 2006 and 2010 Winter<br />
Olympics, White won gold in the<br />
snowboard halfpipe event. White<br />
has also partcipated in the Winter<br />
X Games, where he has won a<br />
medal every year since 2002. Including<br />
all winter X Games compettons<br />
through 2009, his medal<br />
count stands at 15 (10 gold, 3 sil-<br />
ver, 2 bronze), among which is<br />
the first quadruple win streak by<br />
a male athlete in one discipline,<br />
the .
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